A true "Saturday Night Special"...

[cameron.personal]

The deal was done last night in a darkened suburban street around 9:30pm The guy jumped in the back seat of my car, my wife handed the guy $200 cash, and we drove off with a true Saturday Night Special

Colt Detective Special .38



Anyone know where I can find a complete list of serial number ranges to determine the production date on this piece. Serial # 3135XX (the XX are letters).

This is a part of my wife's 30th birthday gift...

Thanks,
Cameron

 

[Iggy]

http://proofhouse.com/colt/index.html

 

[cameron.personal]

Thanks Iggy, but I had checked there they only go up to 1978 this looks like a 1990s piece...

 

[The Lone Haranguer]

With those grips (although they have the Colt logo on them they are Pachmayr Compacs), it might be one of the "reissue"* models from 1993-94.

*Term mine, probably not proper Colt collector parlance, but descriptive nonetheless.